Rozhinitsy

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1. Nursing School Bloopers

   Rozhinitsy replied to Jabber964's topic in Humor

   I made a major bloop when I was in my second year of training. We had a poorly patient who needed reviewing by the doctors so my mentor told me to bleep the team who were looking after her to come and see her. Well, I had a big thing about bleeping d...

2. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

   Rozhinitsy replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

   1) The word "breaching"!!! Patients have to stay in A + E for four hours then they get transferred to CDU, and if there are no beds available then there is a panic as the patient will "breach" the time and then hospital management get involved to fin...

3. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   Rozhinitsy replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   I can deal with almost anything but dirt and body odour. Strange I know. I remember one man who was picked up by the police and brought into the hospital. He lived on the street, and he was soooooo dirty. he had body lice and head lice. Although I wa...

4. Male vs. Female

   Rozhinitsy replied to CarllS's topic in General Nursing

   Unfortunately the female nurses are not allowed to catherise men on my ward even though it's an acute medical ward. But both sexes can catherise women, although most male nurses will ask a female nurse to do it for him if they are available.

5. Dangers of nursing

   Rozhinitsy replied to koan's topic in Safety

   The worst thing about nursing for me is that we have to document everything that happens, from when people have a go at us for whatever reason, if we bleep the doctors and they don't respond etc. It's like covering ourselves the whole time in case so...

6. feeling overwhelmed?

   Rozhinitsy replied to nurseshawna's topic in General Students

   I have been a registered nurse for nearly a year now, and I can assure you you will get through your training. Everyone has doubts, I had doubts after I qualified!!! It's only now that I feel at peace with myself. Although I didn't have a very good t...

7. customer satisfaction in the er

   Rozhinitsy replied to ensense's topic in Emergency

   Yes, I suppose you are right. We do work in close proximity with A + E, but they deal with the patient first hand, then they transfer to us.

8. UK Nursing and European Resources

   Rozhinitsy replied to gwenith's topic in UK

   Hi, I'm interested in woundcare and find that this site is good for finding the different dressings available. http://www.dressings.org/

9. The Reason I Share My Messages With You

   Rozhinitsy replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks Fran, How wonderful was that! That's made my day. It goes with the old adage, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!!

10. my feet are killing me!

    Rozhinitsy replied to wintergreen's topic in Uniform/Gear

    Hi, Just wanted to say that we work 12 and a half hour shifts on my ward, plus the odd twilight(6pm to midnight), and some shorter shifts to make up the hours. You're feet will get used to it, believe me. Make sure you wear comfortable, breathable sh...

11. Is this correct?

    Rozhinitsy replied to Future_RN's topic in General Nursing

    In the UK, you don't have to practice giving yourself injections. When I was a student we had to practice on oranges as they thought that the orange peel was similar to human skin!!!! Good luck with your studies!!

12. Taking out the trash

    Rozhinitsy replied to VAC's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry!! But I would empty the rubbish bins if they were full, as health and safety comes into being here. The domestics are usually very good at doing this however at night they are not around so much so.........! I have no qualms about doing this.

13. customer satisfaction in the er

    Rozhinitsy replied to ensense's topic in Emergency

    CDU isn't like a Fast Trek. We deal with all sorts of problems, such as Cardiac, Respiratory, Overdoses, Gastro problems and everything else. We assess these patients and then transfer them to the appropiate ward. Well that's the theory behind it but...

14. MOT sticker (important for car owners)

    Rozhinitsy replied to Whisper's topic in International

    Thanks for notice, I had no idea that this was a legal requirement!! After my MOT last time, the mechanic gave me one of those but said it was up to me what I did with it!! So it went in the bin, as I always know when my MOT is due. You would have th...

15. Joke.

    Rozhinitsy posted a topic in Humor

    A man went to his doctor complaining of a terrible pain in his elbow. After much prodding and bending the doctor said " I am unsure as to the cause of your pain, I'll have to refer you to a consultant. The only snag is, there is a 12 month waiting l...